This Article Made Me Like Monica A Little More

AN overeager photographer desperate for shots of Grammy-winning R&B songbird Monica was clipped by a cab Wednesday afternoon. “We had just left a shoot for the teen magazines to promote Monica’s new album, ‘The Makings of Me,’ ” said her rep, Chris Chambers. “We were on Eighth Avenue, by 39th Street, and the photographer was in the street by Monica’s SUV when he stepped too far out in the street and was hit.” The lenser was not badly hurt but got a severe tongue-lashing from a shaken taxi driver. His aggression paid off. After Monica ran over to make sure he was OK, she gamely posed for pictures.